Grails g:select optionValue

Question

I having a grails element

<g:select name="name" from="${list}" optionKey='code' optionValue='name' ></g:select>

where the optionValue contains some HTML elements like this,

I want to show only the country name, already I tried using encodeAsHTML(), but no idea how to use. Please suggest.

Thanks

Answer 1

you can not do this with the out-of-box g.select tag. you need to iterate through your list manually:

<select name="someName">
  <option value="">- no select -</option>
  <g:each in="${list}" var="c">
    <option value="${c.code}">${c.name.replaceFirst( /<span class='countryName'>([\w\s]+)</span>/, '$1' )}</option>
  </g:each>
</select>

Answer 2

This is happening because of XSS . Instead of encodeAsHTML use raw . Try this:

<g:select name="name" from="${list.collect { raw(it) }}" optionKey='code' optionValue='name'/>